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Options for Export Diversification and Faster Export Growth in Ghana
Chandra, Vandana; Osorio-Rodarte, Israel - 2013
This paper discusses how Ghana’s path to a middle income status does not have to be paved with only manufactured products. There are multiple paths and processed natural resources-based products are not necessarily a curse, and if Ghana wants and it builds the requisite capacity, it can turn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014157006
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Export Diversification and Economic Growth in Malaysia
Arip, Mohammad Affendy; Yee, Lau Sim; Abdul Karim, Bakri - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between export diversification and economic growth in Malaysia. We use annual data … growth in Malaysia. This finding suggests that, in order to sustain future economic growth under the static effect of … multilateral and regional trade liberalization, Malaysia should diversify its export commodities and develop greater social and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596403
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Options for Export Diversification and Faster Export Growth in Ghana
Chandra, Vandana; Osorio Rodarte, Israel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper discusses how Ghana’s path to a middle income status does not have to be paved with only manufactured products. There are multiple paths and processed natural resources-based products are not necessarily a curse, and if Ghana wants and it builds the requisite capacity, it can turn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472219
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Commodity Export Diversification in Rwanda - Many Export Discoveries with Little Scaling-Up
Chandra, Vandana; Li, Ying; Osorio Rodarte, Israel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Increased diversification of commodity exports, and increased numbers of high-value commodity exports, are needed to generate employment and meet the Government of Rwanda´s targets for poverty reduction. This chapter presents evidence that increased diversification of exports is linked to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472237
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Development patterns and the international order
Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1977
The concept of basic needs is today at the center of many discussions about development and the international order. Some international organizations are rethinking their prior evaluation of development policies based largely on aggregate economic output, in particular, the welfare of the very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619684
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Measuring the maritime potential of nations. The CenPRIS ocean index, phase one (ASEAN)
Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Malaysia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147910
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Looking East, looking West: Penang as a knowledge hub
Gerke, Solvay; Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Penang has always been a focal point, absorbing knowledge (and popular culture) from civilizations to the East and West. In modern Penang the pattern of cultural contacts has changed over time. Research institutes and universities in Penang cooperate with foreign partners to produce research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009328144
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Ethnic Diversity in Malaysia-Lessons Learned from Bio-Diversity Research
Evers, Hans-Dieter; Anis, Yusuf; Shamsul, A.B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
diversity index” is developed and proposed for further analysis of Malaysia’s plural society. This index is based on Simpson …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004823
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The Application of the Minimum Food Security Quota (MFS-Quota): Malaysia
Estrada, Ruiz; Arturo, Mario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
MFS-Quota was applied on the case of Malaysia. The main objective of the MFS-Quota is to calculate the approximate amount …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107906
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Economic development in Sarawak, Malaysia: An overview
Furuoka, Fumitaka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The state of Sarawak is situated on Borneo Island in East Malaysia. It is the largest state in Malaysia covering an … development process in Sarawak which highlight the contrast in economic development in Sarawak and the rest of Malaysia. On the …-based one. Until the 1970s, Malaysia was predominantly an exporter of rubber and tin. However, the country overcame the colonial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112084